Clemens Fischer (DE, 1989)
Residency period: July 2026
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Clemens Fischer is a German artist born in New Jersey, United States, and based in Berlin. Trained at the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin and ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, where he graduated with a Master’s degree in Photography in 2022, his practice investigates the relationship between images, viewers, and the technical systems that shape visual perception. Combining photographic, kinetic, hydraulic, and pyrotechnic elements, Fischer creates installations and experimental apparatuses that critically examine contemporary image production. His work has been presented at Foto/Industria in Bologna, Images Vevey Biennale des Arts Visuels in Vevey, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Fotohof in Salzburg, and SPBH Space in Milan, among others.
At La Becque, Clemens Fischer will undertake a research-based inquiry into water and stone as materials that embody endurance, transformation, and temporal excess. Developed within the framework of the EXECAL residency program, the project explores parallels between geological and hydrological processes and contemporary technological systems, particularly in relation to notions of permanence and transience. Through analogue apparatuses and experimental installations, Fischer will investigate how images and recording systems might register temporalities that extend beyond human perception. Using water and stone as active agents rather than representational motifs, the project seeks to bring natural processes and technological mediation into dialogue, reflecting on continuity, erosion, memory, and change.